What is "hebden"

Hebden may refer to:

Hebden, Hebdon, Hibdon, Ebden, and Ebdon are names all thought to be derived from one of several place names in West Yorkshire, coming from the Old English "heope", or " (rose) hip", and "denu", which meant " valley". The family motto is re e merito ("this through merit").

Less common variations are Heberden, Hepden, Habdon, and Hibden.

Note that some Ebdens and Ebdons are not originally from West Yorkshire 1 but are instead related to the Abdens and Abdons of Somerset and Shropshire. In these cases the name means " abbey farm".

• Matthew Ebden (born 1987), Australian tennis player
• John Hebden (1712–1765), a British composer
• Kieran Hebden, a British musician performing as Four Tet
• Thomas Ebdon (1738–1811), a British composer
• Malcolm Hebden (born 1940), a British actor
• Mark Hebden (born 1958), a British chess grandmaster
• Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly (1841–1911), a commander of British forces in Canada
• Shula Hebden Lloyd, and her first husband Mark Hebden, were fictitious characters on the radio show The Archers
• Ebden,John Bardwell (1787–1873), merchant, banker, politician, Cape Colony, South Africa (son of John Bardwell Ebden)
• Ebden,Charles Hotson (1811–1867), pastoralist, merchant and politician, Cape Colony, South Africa,
• John Ebden, a production designer - e.g. the 1998 film Waking Ned (also known as Waking Ned Devine)
• Max Ebden, one of Africa's most famous skydivers
• One can graduate as an Ebden Scholar of the University of the Cape of Good Hope
• Guido and Dion Hibdon, 2 professional fishermen
• Sir John Hebdon Kt, 1612–1670
• Sir John's father, Hebden, a Russian merchant agent for Tsar Alexis embassy to Russia for Charles II
• Peter Ebdon (born 1970), an English professional snooker player
• William Heberden, one of the most eminent British physicians of the 18th century